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Subject:Re: PDF hyperlinks off-target From:"Mandy -at- TheVerbalist -dot- com" <Mandy -at- theverbalist -dot- com> To:"Wilson, Dennis" <Dennis -dot- Wilson -at- spirentcom -dot- com> Date:Fri, 2 Dec 2005 13:36:01 -0500
On 12/1/05, Wilson, Dennis <Dennis -dot- Wilson -at- spirentcom -dot- com> wrote:
> When outputting PDF from Word, the hyperlinks sometimes are off-target in
> the PDF output. That is, the hyperlink "area" is moved slightly away from
> the text that is the target of the link.
> Has anyone experienced this? What to do? Manual correction is all I have
> found.
>
I found that setting my default printer to Adobe PDF made the
difference for me. Word formats your pages based on the default
printer, so if it's not PDF, then the pages can get rather skewy.
Hope that works for you,
Mandy
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